CanJam 2014

Jude Mansilla’s 6th annual CanJam is always a major event at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest. And 2014 was bigger and better than ever. This year, the CanJam had a total of 42 vendors, making for an amazing weekend of personal audio!

Please click through to see highlights and photos of the 2014 CanJam…

The Schiit Audio Rangnarok priced competitively at $1699.00 is designed to drive any headphone on the market, plus speakers.

Jason Stoddard from Schiit Audio had a big smile on and rightfully so. His high quality products have taken the industry by storm.

Noble custom IEM designed by John Moulton are all hand crafted and look stunning.

Todd The Vinyl Junkie was showing Pete Millet’s latest amplifier, the Apex Spire priced at $1499.00 and with a separate power supply. Designed by legendary designer Pete Millet, it uses one ECC 802 JJ tube and can use 12AU7 and a variety of other tubes. The amp sounded magnificent driving the HD800. Putting out 750MW into 33 ohms this is an impressive creation.

The new MrSpeakers Alpha Prime was on display. Reviewed by Michael Mercer here at Headphone.Guru, this new Prime has a re-engineered driver that Dan Clark been working on this for the past year. A major upgrade from the Alpha Dog and priced at $999.00.

The return of a legend. Dennis Had (of Cary fame) has come out of retirement and designed this new Inspire headphone amplifier. Using two 6SN7 tubes and single Princess 274B this amp was making sweet sounds. The amp is single ended but had two headphone jacks and one single ended 4pin XLR for balanced cables . Priced at $1599.00 and available direct from Moon Audio for pre order . For more information check out Drew and Dennis talking about the amp here.

The BNC music Server from Pure music does both video and music. This world class server is priced at $4200.

Drew Baird with all of his headphones. His signature Silver Dragon and Black Dragon cables were also on display as well as the players form Astell and Kern. Drew had the biggest assortment of goodies and they are all available on his website.

The EF 100 from Hifiman is a 9W headphone and speaker amp. The sound with the HE560 was magnificent and incredibly transparent. The price was $499.00.

The Hifiman booth had their entire line of portable digital players on display.

The HE400I and HE560 with the 80s and 902 players were making exceptional music. You can check them out here: http://hifiman.com/

Vinnie Rossi (Red Winde Audio) was showcasing his new concept amplifier. The Lio is a modular designed amplifier and can be arranged with an assortment of configurations. Price ranges from $2500-$6000 based on your configuration. http://redwineaudio.com

Michael Goodman was showing his newest creation for Centrance. The I5 is available on https://www.indiegogo.com for 299.00 and is designed to fit the iPhone 5. The sound was impressive.

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Frank Iacone

Frank started his journey in high-end audio in 1978 and was quickly hooked. Frank’s passion for music and great sound reproduction is stronger than ever. His main focus is with high-end headphones and portable related gear. He is a regular Head-Fi.org contributor and is a co-founder of Headphone.Guru.